Bug#744315: [docvert] [DFSG] missing source
Package: docvert
Severity: serious
version: 4.0-7
user: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
usertags: source-is-missing
X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster@debian.org
Hi,
Your package seems to include some files that lack sources
in prefered forms of modification:
core/lib/fckeditor/editor/js/fckeditorcode_gecko.js
core/lib/fckeditor/editor/js/fckeditorcode_ie.js
core/lib/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_universalkey/data.js
You could in this case purge fckeditor and use in tree package.
According to Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] (DFSG) §2:
"The program must include source code, and must allow distribution
in source code as well as compiled form.".
This could also constitute a license violation for some copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL.
In order to solve this problem, you could:
1. repack the origin tarball adding the missing source to it.
2 add the source files to "debian/missing-sources" directory
Both way satisfies the requirement that we ship the source. Second option
might be preferable due to the following reasons [2]:
- Upstream can do it too and you could even supply a patch to them, thus full filling our social contract [3], see particularly §2.
- If source and non-source are in different locations, ftpmasters may
miss the source and (needlessly) reject the package.
- The source isn't duplicated in every .diff.gz/.debian.tar.* (though
this only really matters for larger sources).
You could also ask debian-qa for more guidance.
[1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736873#8
[3] https://www.debian.org/social_contract
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Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64
Debian Release: jessie/sid
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